This short open-letter is an extended response to a tweet from Aymann Ismail, whose work I generally admire. I believe he’s mistaken about The Masked Arab, following the expected negative reactions from Muslims to Islamic theological critique. Here, I hope to suggest a closer look, and fact-checking first hand. Aymann, I’ve found your work to be […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Contributions to Promoting Islam for All Muslims
I was recently tagged on a Facebook post discussing Ahmadiyya Muslims in the USA, in the world generally and relations between Ahmadiyya Muslims and other Muslims. This post is me chiming in, as I don’t believe Ahmadiyya Muslims were fairly characterized. I encourage you to read the full post. I will quote excerpts that I […]
Ali M’s Flawed Argument
Recently, I tweeted out praise for Ali A. Rizvi’s new book, The Atheist Muslim. Are you Muslim? Do you want to understand why people are leaving the faith? Take a read/listen to Ali Rizvi’s book: https://t.co/XY61VWwt1h — Reason on Faith (@ReasonOnFaith) November 24, 2016 Note: Names Suppressed The original version of this post contained the […]
Responding to Whataboutery from Katherine Mellow
This is a response to this tweet from user @katydid_alot. @ReasonOnFaith @AtheistRepublic @ArminNavabi Noble words. Now,if only I saw u actually DOING so. Where’ve u been for the Uigers or Rohingya? — katherine mellow (@katydid_alot) August 18, 2016 Most people sharing opinions on Twitter are not paid journalists or paid activists. Many sites and organizational […]
No Bigotry. No Apology.
The problematic word ‘Islamophobia’ has done a good job of conflating criticism of ideas (Islamic beliefs, ideology) with a hatred of and bigotry towards people (Muslims). That’s why anyone serious about combatting anti-Muslim bigotry shouldn’t use that word. I reject anti-Muslim bigotry. It is wrong. I also reject racism (remember, ‘Muslim’ is not a race). […]